Karel Zeman

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1910 age 0

   Born

2. 1945 age 35

   CreditA Christmas Dreamdirector

   CreditA Christmas Dreamscreenwriter

3. 1955 age 45

   CreditJourney to the Beginning of Timedirector

   CreditJourney to the Beginning of Timescreenwriter

4. 1958 age 48

   CreditInvention for Destructiondirector

   CreditInvention for Destructionscreenwriter

5. 1962 age 52

   CreditThe Fabulous Baron Munchausendirector

   CreditThe Fabulous Baron Munchausenscreenwriter

6. 1967 age 57

   CreditThe Stolen Airshipcinematographer

   CreditThe Stolen Airshipdirector

7. 1989 age 78

   Died

• ZSZdeněk Stehlík3 titles
• MHMiloslav Holub3 titles
• KEKarel Effa2 titles
• ZLZdeněk Liška2 titles
• OŠOtto Šimánek2 titles
• JBJiří Brdečka2 titles
• JHJosef Hlinomaz2 titles
• EKEduard Kohout2 titles
• FŠFrantišek Šlégr2 titles
• VBVáclav Babka2 titles

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  Photo:Přemysl OtakarCC BY-SA 4.0

• For an artist there is no more serious and, at the same time, more joyous task than to create, through art, a new aesthetic, and ultimately, a new way of being.

  Karel Zeman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I'm on a journey to discover the beauty of the fairy tale and I want to stay on that path, trying to find better ways to capture it on film. And I have only one wish — to delight the eyes and heart of every child.

  Karel Zeman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I wanted one thing – to show the fantastic world created by nature over millions of years. Film offered me that chance.

  Karel Zeman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Man has created a grandiose world of technology, of which dread and fear are often the result... Fortunately, events in the world and our way of life are not determined by technology alone.

  Karel Zeman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• With the vast sweep of his imagination Jules Verne created a whole world of magical things imbued with a delightful naiveté, which just charm us...

  Karel Zeman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Why do I make movies? I'm looking for terra incognita, a land on which no filmmaker has yet set foot, a planet where no director has planted his flag of conquest, a world that exists only in fairy tales.

  Karel Zeman, CC BY-SA 4.0